Tag - eSight

Blind Woman Raising Money For High Tech Glasses

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00But last fall Laura tried eSight glasses. “It was incredible,” she says. Read more >>

Forward Thinking Blog A Hopeful CES Trend: Tech for the Visually and Hearing-Impaired

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00eSight has another approach, using electronic glasses that can actually enable some legally blind people to see. Read more >>

Help For The Blind: Eyesight ‘restoration’ with VR

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Resembling the visor worn by Geordi La Forge in Star Trek, the eSight 3 allows the legally blind to do just about anything that a fully sighted person is able to do, whether that’s reading the newspaper or playing basketball… Once you get over the impulse to perform painful Star Trek character impersonations. Our friends over at VRE (VR Hire in London) delve into the workings of the Esight headset. Read More >>

Help For The Blind: Eyesight ‘restoration’ with VR

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Resembling the visor worn by Geordi La Forge in Star Trek, the eSight 3 allows the legally blind to do just about anything that a fully sighted person is able to do, whether that’s reading the newspaper or playing basketball. Read More >>

3 Game-Changing Health Gadgets Spotted at CES

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00In advance of CES, I was alerted to two products in this category that I wanted to check out. The first is called eSight, which are electronic glasses that let the legally blind see. In the demo I saw, a legally blind woman using these glasses could see the street from the 30th floor of a hotel suite and make out what people were wearing at street level. Read more >>

Smartglasses from eSight are changing blind people’s lives by enabling them to see

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Every once in a while, we see technology that is unlikely to actually be experienced by most people, but is truly transformative and life-changing for select people. That perfectly describes eSight, a pair of smartglasses that give blind people the ability to see. Read more >>

Odessa man’s vision changed by electronic glasses

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Nick Flores, 23, received electronic glasses from eSight this past October to help enhance his vision. Read more >>

eSight wants to help 50 million people living with vision loss see by 2020

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Toronto-based eSight has launched a pledge to help the 50 million people worldwide living with vision loss and blindness by 2020 through a new campaign. Read more >>

Some Things About Tech Were Good in 2017. No, Really.

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00An estimated 10 million Americans are blind or visually impaired, and until recently, tech companies did not have much to offer them. But that’s changing, thanks to start-ups like eSight and Aira, two companies that are taking advantage of recent advances in mobile and imaging technology to help visually impaired people navigate the world. Read more >>

Legally Blind Boy Given the Gift of Sight, Just in Time for Christmas

Ziad2022-11-25T14:05:16-05:00Angelo Yu, 8, loves to read but the 2nd grader has to hold books right up to his face. That's because he is legally blind, the side effect of a brain tumor. Now, the young boy has gotten the best Christmas gift he could ask for, thanks to tech expert Katie Linendoll and her sister, Nadine, an oncology nurse practitioner. Angelo’s gift arrived in a large box, a pair of electronic glasses called eSight. Read more >>